Sentence examples for In shroud from inspiring English sources

In Shroud, which can be read as a companion piece to his last novel, Eclipse, another strong cast of spectral presences - a passer-by mown down by a lorry, a hotel porter mopping a floor, a child disappearing suddenly from a midnight corridor - is headed by two more specific representatives of the dead.

Axel Vander is a Jew, and in "Shroud" he adopts the identity of a dead friend, in order to escape Nazi-occupied Belgium.

Banville seldom lacks heat — in "Shroud" and "The Sea," you sometimes think you're going to die — and he never lacks moral understanding.

Cleave has been approached to play the part of the late Axel Vander, a notorious and disgraced literary theorist who featured heavily in Shroud and who bears a certain resemblance to Paul de Man.

The priests are wrapped in shrouds.

6.12pm BST Egyptians mourn over bodies wrapped in shrouds at a mosque in Cairo.

There were moments when black-clad dancers dragged heavy burdens that resembled corpses in shrouds.

I saw a chassis covered in shrouds and a sketch.

But Labour isn't the only party to see electoral value in shrouding itself in the red dragon.

All had been buried in shrouds and were lying in unusual positions as though they had been dumped hurriedly.

Draped in shrouds, they beat on pots and pans with a spoon and go door-to-door for treats.